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Re: UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July

  • From: Scott Bradner
  • Date: Mon Feb 21 13:49:43 2005

the report itself is linked to from
http://www.itu.int/wsis/wgig/index.html

Scott

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From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
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Subject: UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July
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My favorite quote(s) from this very brief article:

"Right now, the most recognizable Internet governance
body is a California-based non-profit company, the
International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN)."

"But developing countries want an international body,
such as the U.N.'s International Telecommunication
Union (ITU), to have control over governance -- from
distributing Web site domains to fighting spam."

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-02-21T171326Z_01_N21644703_RTRIDST_0_NET-TECH-UN-DC.XML

- ferg

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg@netzero.net or
 fergdawg@sbcglobal.net





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